TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2015 (12) TMI 1667
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....of the appellant's case. 3. The learned CIT (Appeals) ought to have appreciated that the carry forward of the deficit to be set off against the income form property held under trust in future is permissible and the same is not prohibited under the scheme of the Act and therefore, the denial of the claim made by the appellant is unjustified and the same is liable to be vacated. 4. For the above and other grounds that maybe urged at the time of hearing of the appeal, your appellant humbly prays that the appeal may be allowed and justice rendered and the appellant may be awarded costs in prosecuting the appeal and also order for the refund of the institution fees as part of the costs." 3. The assessee is a public religious cum public charitable institution registered as a society under Mysore Society Registration Act, 1960. The assessee is also stated to have been registered under Section 12A(a) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (in short 'the Act') vide order dt.15.12.2013. The assessee filed its return of income for the year under consideration on 27.9.2011 declaring a total income of Rs.Nil. While framing the assessment under Section 143(3) dt.20.12.2013, the Assessing Officer....
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....his Tribunal has held in para 5.3.1 to 5.3.4 as under :- " 5.3.1 We have heard the rival contentions of both parties and perused and carefully considered the material on record; including judicial pronouncements, cited and placed reliance upon. We find that the case of Institute of Banking (supra), the Hon'ble High Court of Bombay has held as under :- "Now coming to question No. 3, the point which arises for consideration is : whether excess of expenditure in the earlier years can be adjusted against the income of the subsequent year and whether such adjustment should be treated as application of income in subsequent year for charitable purposes? It was argued on behalf of the Department that expenditure incurred in the earlier years cannot be met out of the income of the subsequent year and that utilization of such income for meeting the expenditure of earlier years would not amount to application of income for charitable or religious purposes. In the present case, the AO did not allow carry forward of the excess of expenditure to be set off against the surplus of the subsequent years on the ground that in the case of a charitable trust, their income was assessable under s....
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....ritable or religious purposes. Hence, even if the expenses for such purposes have been incurred in the earlier years and the said expenses are adjusted against the income of a subsequent year, the income of such subsequent year can be said to be applied for charitable or religious purposes in the year in which such adjustment takes place. In other words, the set-off of excess of expenditure incurred over the income of earlier years against the income of a later year will amount to application of income of such later year. The above is the position of law as held in the case of CIT Vs. Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation 164 ITR 439 (Raj) CIT Vs. Shri Plot Swetamber Murti Pujak Jain Mandal 211 ITR 293 (Guj.). In CIT Vs. Institute of Banking Personnel Selection 264 ITR 110 (Bom), it was held that in case of charitable trust whose income is exempt under s. 11, excess of expenditure in the earlier years can be adjusted against income of subsequent years and such adjustment would be application of income for subsequent years and that depreciation is allowable on the assets the cost of which has been fully allowed as application of income under s. 11 in past years. In Govindu Naicker....
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....und in Section 11(1)(a) of the Act. No limitation to the above effect is found in the language of the section. It merely requires application of the income that has arisen from the property held under trust. In this view of the matter, the principles relating to set off of losses, etc. is not of any relevance and therefore any excess application of income during the year can be regarded as application of the income of future years and can be adjusted. Therefore, in our view, the claim of the assessee for carry forward of excess application is in accordance with the judicial precedents on the issue and the same is allowable. 5.3.4 In the case of Indian National Theater (supra) relied on by the learned Departmental Representative. The Hon'ble High Court of Delhi has held that to satisfy the requirements of section 11(2)(b) of the Act, the investment must necessarily come out of current year's income and the investment made in the past obviously cannot satisfy the requirements for the current year. The above decision of the Hon'ble Delhi High Court has considered the provisions of section 11(2) of the Act and has taken the view that the accumulation under Section 11(2) of the....